It is an exhaustive look at the full sweeping arc of Russia's doomed royal family.
But you haven't read this one in full, sweeping style because the company is The New York Times, and the family is the close-knit and extraordinarily private Ochs-Sulzbergers, descendants of Adolph Ochs, who came up from Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1896, bought the failing New-York Times and put it on the path to greatness.
It's full of sweeping strings, impassioned speeches and the sight of a wronged and noble hero fighting the forces of institutionalised bigotry.
The effect can be seen in the economical, almost understated tone of Crazy Heart, which is full of sweeping panoramic views, and sparsely edited dialogue.
There were also gorgeous coffee-table books full of sweeping landscapes and handsome, well-scrubbed gauchos, the iconic cowboys of Argentina.
The band's grand, piano-driven songs (available from www.straylightrun.com) are full of sweeping choruses and nagging second thoughts; even without an official release, the group has a rabid following.
At the age of 27, he is about to release his fifth album, Lupercalia, a work packed full of sweeping orchestration, surges of positive sentiment and oodles of commercial potential.
It's beautifully shot, full of sweeping landscapes and intimate close-ups of nectar-drinking bats, and some sequences are technically and technologically astounding, like the infrared footage of a bat pup's birth in a subterranean nursery, or of a rat snake, hidden in a crevice in a cave wall, snatching a bat and swallowing it whole.
The group's grand, piano-driven songs (available for download at www.straylightrun.com) are full of sweeping choruses and nagging second thoughts, and more than one lyric belongs to the rapidly growing sub-sub-genre of meta-emo: "All these lines/ Fall short of what I had in mind/ A failed attempt to capsulize a feeling".
A new song, "Heavenly... (Good Feeling)," criticized war in hackneyed terms that could turn the most hard-core dove into a hawk: "Why is it anyone has to die?/ Did they ever ask you why?" There were a few exceptions, notably "Kiss From a Rose," perhaps his best known song, an epic ballad full of sweeping melodies, unexpected shifts in phrases and fearlessly overblown lyrics.
"I think it's best to describe her work as full of sweeping strokes - but perhaps the beauty is in the eye of the beholder".
